More pics, this time from Essen last week, plenty to drool over

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys

Nice!

(But I must complain about the steel band on the air intake of that first stand alone engine - it is slightly askew - I mean what is the world coming to?)

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

I know, terrible oversight by the normally perfect Germans

I got lost in your country on the way back to the UK, saw a lot of nice blonde girls on bicycles though which made up for it

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys

It isn't my country I come from yours (or the one where you live now) - and yes the nice blond girls on bikes are everywhere and cause me no end of distraction... even the one I married still does it for me!

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys

Terrible, just terrible! I would have given then a tongue-lashing if I'd been there!!!

And on the second engine, a 280SE engine, they never plated the screw on oil filler cap. Another glaring error.

I'm so depressed.

BTW, my father has a 1965 300SE Long back in the 70's. What a car.

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Regards

Warren

Currently 1965 220Sb, 2002 FORD Crown Vic Police Interceptor

Had 1965 220SEb, 1967 230S, 280SE 4.5, 300SE (W126), 420SEL

ENTER > = (HP RPN)

Not part of the in-crowd since 1952.

Gawd I love pics like these. Thanks.

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- Brian


1989 500SEL Euro
1966 250SE Cabriolet
1958 BMW Isetta 600

Okay Chazola...stop it !

Now NOTHING I build is gonna make me happy....I'm going to have to invest in a cad' plating tank now...thanks !

That 6.3 engine is in a Coupe!



And I don't see the air compressor, so they must have used a spring suspension. Do you have more pictures of that car? What was it? A private, or a restauration shop displaying it?

wonderful series of photos. i particularly enjoyed the muted colors from 'back in the day' on those beautiful curving body lines... very nice!

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There should be "NSFW" on the title!

Thanks for sharing!

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http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7271/7...144c3fc1dc.jpg

I think that's the only picture of that one I have, I just took the engine bay since it was like you say a 6.3 stuffed into a Coupe. It was one of the many restoration companies displaying there, it was almost depressing after a while as they were so nice, makes my 250 look like a right old heap...

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys

More car p*rn...

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1993 320TE M104
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past:

1983 230E W123 M102
1994 E300D S124 OM606 (x2)
1967 250SE W108 M129
1972 280se 3.5 W108 M116
1980 280SE W116 M110
1980 350SE W116 M116
1992 300E W124 M103
1994 E280 W124 M104
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"music and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business" -Pepys

I went there once and it was amazing. I wonder how much people invest into these restaurations and if they ever get their money back in case of resale.

Lovely pics.

True many will never get their money back, but it is nice people will do it anyway. Sometimes you just have to do things you can be proud of without regard to cost.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.